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by cvsh 9y ago
Indeed, it sounds like a perverse incentive to compete in an arms race of increasingly expensive procedures
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by cvsh 9y ago
How big of an ego do you have to have to name your monthly column "The Firstname Lastname Review of Arts & Letters & Civil Strife"
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by cvsh 9y ago
Not over the long term.
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by cvsh 9y ago
I've long thought the endgame of Uber is open-source software that continually automatically adjusts how much of the transaction it skims off so that it always has just enough to pay its own AWS bills.
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Also, honestly, don't bother adding random people on LinkedIn to grow your network. It's not worth it. Hmmm, what's the downside, exactly? The benefit is that I now have a network of like 500 tech recruiters I can instant
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by cvsh 9y ago
>just imagine how you'd feel if you suddenly became 10x as effective as your job. I wish I could feed my laptop a pill that would make it write better code for me
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by cvsh 9y ago
>The DEA won't have any choice but move MDMA from schedule 1 to a lower schedule, as schedule 1 is defined as "no currently accepted medical use in the United States". The DEA has demonstrated pretty clearly that it doesn&
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by cvsh 9y ago
>A better rule, however, is: do not try to time the market. Just invest when you can. Well, that rule assumes two things: 1. That you're investing for the long term (i.e. retirement), and more importantly, 2. That you're invest
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by cvsh 9y ago
Probably because it's the most dangerous thing you can do short of actually attempting suicide
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by cvsh 9y ago
The one advantage Wappalyzer has is that it changes its icon to show the primary technology the site is using (i.e. JS framework) so I can glance over and see "Oh, this is built with React". If Whatruns had that feature, I'd
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by cvsh 9y ago
That's pretty much exactly what Medium is, except with a self-help / entrepreneurship spin
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Suddenly you're down 20-25% over 6 months and people start to say "oh crap, we're in a recession". But really, at that point you've been in the recession for six months. This is exactly why panic selling is such
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by cvsh 9y ago
I wonder if some of this is due to a subtle intervening variable like conscious or subconscious (i.e. fidgeting) decisions to exercise more accumulated over time because of increased energy, rather than caffeine per se.
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Sentiment analysis of copyrighted text passages might be claimed as being a derivitive work for example. So if a company releases a product that predicts likelihood of an employee quitting, you think you're going to have standing t
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by cvsh 9y ago
Yes, because "publish" implies breach of copyright. If I post an essay on LinkedIn, and then someone posts it on their blog, copyright has been breached because that is my original work. If I post the fact that I worked at Dunkin
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Based on that one statement alone, as an employee, I would be uncomfortable with the use of my data to supply my employer with my future plans before I choose to disclose it myself. That choice is mine, and mine alone; not something to
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by cvsh 9y ago
>We're still over-emphasizing passing grades over effectively growing new American citizens... 2/3rds of state legislatures are actively hostile to basic tenets of science, let alone the government teaching "effective Amer
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by cvsh 9y ago
Bureaucracies are staffed with humans who have the capacity to make a judgement call on how to interpret the rules, and bend their letter to serve their spirit, or the interests of pubic relations, or just common sense.
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by cvsh 9y ago
That addresses one issue posed by AI bans, but not the other issue I mention in the second paragraph.
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by cvsh 9y ago
It also potentially eliminates the need for 1-2 nights of hotel rooms. Depending on your travel situation, that might be more convenient.
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by cvsh 9y ago
The worst part of the information age is arbitration by unreasonable and impenetrable algorithms rather than humans with the capacity to make a judgement call when the rules clearly don't account for the situation at hand. A transparen
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by cvsh 9y ago
>and the city becomes a place only for tourists and the wealthy The city is becoming a place for tourists and the wealthy because tourists and the wealthy have decided they want to live in the city. AirBnB and rising prices more broadly
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by cvsh 9y ago
Why is seeing someone new every three days an intrinsic wrong that we need to right with legislation?
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by cvsh 9y ago
Dreadful UX was Snapchat's selling point from the beginning, though. Kids love it because the olds can't figure it out.
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by cvsh 9y ago
>Snapchat: Stories are not autoplay. You touch and see the story you're interested in and the view closes. You have to scroll and open another story. Not sure when the last time you used Snapchat was, but this is definitely not true
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by cvsh 9y ago
You're thinking of the other FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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by cvsh 9y ago
>I get that some folks want to legalize drugs, but make an argument for it that doesn't involve this twisting of results to match the desired outcome. Criminalizing drugs has negative externalities like boosting the profits of organ
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by cvsh 9y ago
>I want to prevent any military from legally using it (I know that if they find it useful, they'll just use it anyway - that's not the point). So... you don't actually want to prevent any military from using it, you just
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by cvsh 9y ago
Or maybe they just mashed together the Latin word for 'truth' with 'Ethereum' and the etymology of Veritaserum is coincidentally covergent evolution
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by cvsh 9y ago
It was terrible. Just an endless avalanche of 80s pop culture references loosely strung together with a horribly cliche plot and characters. The references weren't even interesting either. It'll just be something like, "Then,

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